Swami Venkatesananda

When Love Comes Into Being

I cannot love you. Impossible. 

We are two completely different beings. As long as I still cling to the consciousness that I am I and you are you, I cannot love you. I may temporarily pretend to love you, I may temporarily profess to love you, but it is only a passing fancy. As long as you scratch my back and I scratch yours, we will call ourselves lovers. 

But as soon as this ceases, it's all over and we begin to hate each other. This is not true love it all. Love can only come into being when the ‘I’ has seen itself out and ceased to interfere in the operation of the natural intelligence, this natural intelligence being cosmic and indivisible.

Swami Krishnananda

DELIGHT OF SELF

Swami Krishnananda

The delight of the Self is the delight of Being . It is the Bliss of Consciousness-Absolute. The Being of Consciousness is the Being of Bliss, Eternal .

It does not lie in achievement but realisation and experience, not invention but discovery.

This Pure Consciousness is the same as Pure Bliss , the source of Power and the height of Freedom. This is the supreme Silence of the splendid Plenitude of the Real, where the individual is drowned in the ocean of Being.

The delight of unfettered being is beyond all states of relational joy, however extreme that joy may be. 

The Bliss of unlimited Consciousness is the zenith of Existence, and everything other than this is condemned as untrue.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

“It is false to speak of realisation. What is there to realise? The real is as it is always. We are not creating anything new or achieving something which we did not have before. The illustration given in books is this. We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now. Similarly we have simply to throw out all the age-long samskaras [innate tendencies] which are inside us. When all of them have been given up, the Self will shine alone.”